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Re: Advice For A Newcomer

To: "Doug & Rett Leithauser" <dleit@mintcity.com>
Subject: Re: Advice For A Newcomer
From: Anita Barrett <anitabrt@mindspring.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 20:15:11 -0500
At 09:38 PM 1/6/98 -0500, you wrote:
>For all I know this may be one of the unreleased TAC secrets, but my Tiger
>had a builders plate on the left side of what would be the rear seat
>cusion, if the car had a rear seat. It was under the tarpaper insulation,
>about on the opposite side of the battery access opening, where the Tiger
>does not have a battery & identified pressed steel as the builder. Also
>look for Cro-Magnon looking pop rivets on the VIN tag. The modern looking
>rivets are much smaller than original. I was foolish enough to remove these
>valuable markers before I knew what value some people put on them. Then
>again, a restored Michigan Tiger probably will never be a collectors item.
>Good luck in your search.
>Doug Leithauser

Doug,
        I had the same thing on my Tiger II; however the plate must have been
made of iron sheet metal as it rusted out so bad that I took it off when I
added a rolll bar.
Jim Barrett Tiger II 351C and others


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